Post by @forkranger

The complete guide to sustainable food choices: some make a huge difference, and others… not so much. So we wanted to create a priority list. What are the most impactful actions? And what are the choices that we don’t have to worry about so much? That is the idea behind our ‘compass’, a central part of the Fork Ranger book. It’s not a map to a perfect food system, but it points in the general direction about how to reduce the climate impact of our food (for individuals, a list for farmers look can look completely different). In the book I walk through each step in more detail and also share more stories about why our individual choices matter in the first place. Sources for the graphs in the videos: 1 Bar-On, Y. M., Phillips, R., & Milo, R. (2018). The biomass distribution on Earth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(25), 6506-6511. Note: when I say 30x times heavier than wild mammals I meant all farm animals, not just cows. The exact number is even a bit higher (36.3). Poore, J., & Nemecek, T. (2018). Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers. *Science*, *360*(6392), 987-992. 2 WRAP. (2023, November). Food surplus and waste in the UK: Key facts [PDF]. WRAP. 3 Europe and USA consumption numbers from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. FAOSTAT Statistical Database. (2018) and median GHG emissions from Poore, J., & Nemecek, T. (2018). Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers. Science, 360(6392), 987-992. 4 Rockström, J., Thilsted, S. H., Willett, W. C., Gordon, L. J., Herrero, M., Hicks, C. C., ... & DeClerck, F. (2025). The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems. The Lancet, 406(10512), 1625-1700. 5 Crippa, M., Solazzo, E., Guizzardi, D., Monforti-Ferrario, F., Tubiello, F. N., & Leip, A. J. N. F. (2021). Food systems are responsible for a third of global anthropogenic GHG emis-. sions. Nature Food, 2(3), 198-209.